Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction… and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

Decision

Dimensions

Giving

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything – as long as they call him something.

Attention

Long

Pay

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.

Artist

Discipline

People

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it’s mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There’s the art of plumbing; there’s the art of almost anything that you can say.

Art

Kind

Language

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Aids

Discipline

Restriction

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Art

Inspirational

Life

I don’t make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same – lighting, color, structure, and so on – certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

Color

Landscape

Ordinary

I haven’t the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Art

Ideas

Painter

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that’s the whole joy. If you could just do it, there’d be no point in doing it.

Inexperience

Joy

Thinking

I’m a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

Artist

Believe

Ideas

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Air

Art

Artist

Attention

Believe

Color

Community

Copying

Criticism

Decision

Dimensions

Discipline

Essence

Feelings

Giving

Gold

Ideas

Important

Independent

Inexperience

Inspirational

Integrity

Joy

Kind

Landscape

Language

Life

Limits

Long

Made

Needs

Opportunity

Ordinary

Paint

Painter

Painting

Pay

People

Pie

Ponies

Restriction

Shoes

Sin

Strive

Substance

Thinking

Views

Want

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Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything – as long as they call him something.

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it’s mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There’s the art of plumbing; there’s the art of almost anything that you can say.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

I don’t make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same – lighting, color, structure, and so on – certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

I haven’t the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that’s the whole joy. If you could just do it, there’d be no point in doing it.

I’m a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

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